Karen Hart, tell me about your vision.
Yeah, so just as a mom of four daughters,
it's so important for us to be such great role models.
And as I've gone through life,
thinking I had to do one thing,
and then just realizing that actually
I have the power to do whatever I want,
and being able to pivot and change that,
and live more aligned to who I am and what my values are.
I worked, I'm a nurse by trade
and have been for over 23 years.
And I kind of came out of school,
this is what I'm gonna do for the next 50 years
while I was working.
And then having a family come along,
it was just that realization that having a career
and having children, you can absolutely have both.
However, I just wanted it to look different
because I had gone up into management,
I'd studied a lot and was working long hours and long days
and not seeing my family.
So I was really out of alignment
and just not role modeling to them.
And I think I worked on that and then came into actually,
there's something else I can do and I can change that
and flip that and have more focus,
more positive, great energy,
rather than this kind of working really hard
in a job all the time.
And so to be able to empower other women
to realize and recognize,
are they actually living in alignment?
Are they living true to themselves?
And often it's sometimes because we don't know who we are,
we get a little lost in motherhood and in work
and everybody else's stuff that we forget who we are.
And so it's just really about bringing it back
to discovering who we are and what we want to do.
And that's different for everybody.
And then trusting ourselves to then be able
to lead ourselves into living our authentic selves.
Absolutely.
Awesome.
Now, I wanna ask, how did you get started
and how do you go about helping others find this centeredness
and balance that you have?
Now, before you answer that question though,
you mentioned that you were a nurse for 20 something years
and you can't be that much older than 20 something years old.
Oh, I am curious.
Like when did you get started too
in the transition from nursing to coaching others?
How did you get started and what does that look like?
And let's try to make that,
I'm gonna pressure you into making that less
than a two minute response so that people get it quick.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I did, I left school, went to uni, studied nursing,
studied heaps all across the board
and had worked my way up through into management.
What got me started into coaching is
I had been working with a coach
and I guess I had an aha moment
that actually I can do something other than healthcare
and nursing that I kind of thought I was stuck in.
And so it was that permission to be able to,
and I'd always loved personal development
and having four daughters, it was like,
I seeing them grow up and knowing how I also grew up
as a teen girl, being able to role model
and give them skills and tools along the way as well.
And so it's only for the last couple of years
that I've been doing this and studying
and I've had lots of skills along the way
in nursing anyway through coaching.
It's just looks a little bit different
to actual sitting down with somebody.
And so now I work with women in three pillars.
I've got self discovery, self trust and self leadership
and we work through the process.
I've got hypnosis tools, NLP tools
and just general coaching to be able to help them find
and work out what that is for them.
That's awesome.
My hope for you is that you maintain
your resolute confidence in all that you've been able
to accumulate to do what you do.
I believe in you 100%.
And I believe in every mom that's out there.
And the reason why, like, well, it's just obvious,
but for anybody who doesn't find that obvious,
to manage, right?
Especially like to help people with growth,
there's nothing harder.
You can't fire your children.
Right?
You don't get rid of, you love them no matter what
and they can hate us, right?
They can be so mad at us, you know, or whatever.
They can feel whatever they want
and we can't give up and we don't give up.
We don't want to give up, right?
So I mean, you had a career as well,
but I meet mothers who are stay-at-home moms
who 30 years later, they want to get back in the workforce
and they feel like they're unqualified
or they can't do anything.
No, they're the best managers.
They're the ones who know how to bring a team together.
So yeah, you have every right to coach
regardless of the nursing background and all that.
I love your mission.
I love what you're up to.
I'm excited to see you succeed.
Thank you for being here today.
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